History and present

More than one hundred years of tradition

We are more than one hundred years old. Actually, we are even older than
that. If you trace back to the beginnings of dairy farming in the South Bohemia
region, a tradition upon which we build, you would have to go all the way back
to 1838. It was back then that the first cheese makers were founded in the
Schwarzenberg court near České Budějovice.

Madeta itself was born around the year 1902 in the town of Tábor. Back then
it was named MLÉKÁRENSKÉ DRUŽSTVO TÁBORSKÉ (TÁBOR DAIRY
COOP). It was the first letters of this name that were used to create the
unforgettable MADETA brand name.

It survived countless historical events and thus also the property peripeteia
that occurred in the 20th century in Central Europe. It changed as the world
changed around it. Fortunately most of these changes were for the better. That
is why it is stronger today than it has ever been and still just as renowned for
its most modern technology and highest quality products.

If you turn to any page in the history of our company, you will find that it
is almost always a history of success, production expansion, the development of
new products and, without exaggeration, the implementation, for its time, of
revolutionary technology. That is a tradition here at Madeta…

Our Past

1902 The founding of MLÉKÁRENSKÉ DRUŽSTVO TÁBORSKÉ.
1906 Creation of the MADETA brand name.
1913 The largest milk processor in Bohemia.
1948 MADETA is nationalized.
1960 The creation of the Jihočeské mlékárny company (South Bohemian
Dairies), under which MADETA falls.
1992 Restructuring and the concentration of production.
2002 Change of the company name to MADETA, a. s.

1,000,000 litres of milk daily

Madeta is 5 in 1. Six individual plants that are really very close to each
other, not only in terms of their brand name, company culture and the fact that
they develop and grow on purely Czech capital – they are literally close to
each other. They are located not far from each other, practically in one region.
However, it is milk that binds them together the most. In one year more than
half a billion litres of milk “pours” into its operations, which is a fifth
of all of the production in the Czech Republic. It leaves the company’s gates
in the form of 239 kinds of products with an annual volume of
396,900,000,0­00 items. An unbelievable amount? Not at all. After all, we are
the largest processor of milk in the country.

Approximately a quarter of our production is exported abroad, to Lebanon, the
United Arab Emirates, European Union countries, Russia, Asia, Africa, and to
America. Even though it might seem that with that kind of production volume and
similar technology that individual plants would lose their identity — this is
not so. Each has its own “speciality” — products that can only be
produced there and nowhere else. Because it is precisely there — and nowhere
else — that they know how to do it best. Proof is in the taste and interest
of consumers.